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All you need to keep in mind is that these are the good guys, and those are the bad guys, and those other people are just caught in the crossfire.Īlongside the well-cast Crawford and Wayans, a solid ensemble includes Keesha Sharp as Murtaugh’s missus Jordana Brewster as the department psychologist Johnathan Fernandez as the resident pathologist - can’t have a procedural without a pathologist - nicknamed Scorsese, because he went to film school and Kevin Rahm, Ted of “Mad Men” fame, as the captain. As in the movies, the relationship between the leads is more important than the crime-fighting the mystery here is not particularly involving. Tonally, the pilot splits the difference between the original film, which offered violent action with touches of comedy, and the later films, which were comedies with more than a touch of violent action. Written by Matt Miller (“Forever”) and directed by McG (“Charlie’s Angels” movies, “The Mysteries of Laura”), the pilot ticks off the franchise-defining boxes. (Also a new baby - no connection is drawn between those events.) As we begin, he is recovered enough to return to work, though not before initiating a sad running joke in which birthday sex never happens. To even the scales, Murtaugh (Damon Wayans, 56, can play 50) has been given a small heart attack. Now Riggs (Clayne Crawford, 38) is newly arrived from Texas with a back story ever so slightly more horrible than his film original. (It is surprising how little context you can create in the course of four feature films, though less so when you consider how much of that time was devoted to running, driving, shooting and things blowing up.)
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The series begins where the original movie did - leaving out Riggs’ mullet - with some small, mostly enlivening tweaks and elaborations. Now, 18 years after those characters were last taken out for a spin, they have been dusted off and shrunk down for “Lethal Weapon,” the TV series, which begins Wednesday on Fox. Plans are also afoot for a ‘Training Day’ TV spin-off, with Ethan Hawke reportedly having been approached to reprise his role from the 2001 movie.It has been 30 years since the noisy arrival of “Lethal Weapon” - the film, then the franchise - in which Mel Gibson played Martin Riggs, an LAPD detective with a death wish, and Danny Glover played his partner, Roger Murtaugh, a detective with a family. There’s no word yet on when the ‘Lethal Weapon’ TV show is due to air, but it won’t be the only big screen action franchise getting a small screen revival in 2016 as a ‘Rush Hour’ series is also incoming. This pilot announcement comes after years of rumours about a big screen ‘Lethal Weapon’ reboot, with Jeremy Renner and Chris Hemsworth both having been tentatively linked to the role of Riggs. This time around the as-yet uncast Riggs will be a “Texas cop and former Navy SEAL,” who transfers to LA after losing both his wife and their baby, whilst Murtaugh is under doctor’s orders to avoid stress following a minor heart attack. Where the original 1987 ‘Lethal Weapon’ saw the traumatised Vietnam veteran and recent widower Riggs team up with the just-turned-50 Murtaugh on the mean streets of LA, this new take from screenwriter Matt Miller (formerly a producer on ‘Chuck’) has naturally made some updates.